Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society as well as a film: the cause celebre about nuclear war created by this movie has crystallized certain contemporary problems. For example, a storm broke when the B.B.C. for which the movie had originally been made, refused to show it because it was too horrifying. This uproar dramatized the potentials and weaknesses of the nationalized television industry. On the one hand, the resources of the B.B.C. allowed Watkins to make The War Game. On the other hand, the conservatism of the B.B.C. (which has become to many young Englishmen the perfect symbol of the Establishment) prevented the public from...
...fresh and sharp idea or an unexpected treatment of a subject." They deplored the habit of cultural commissars' dropping casually in on rehearsals of a new play and then later banning its opening, criticized the censors' prim hostility to such themes as religion. Frightened by the uproar the article caused among the young Communists, Komsomolskaya Pravda last week ran an editorial condemning not only the two critics but also its own editors for spreading "gross ideological error...
...race was won by New Zealand's Denis Hulme, averaging 75.89 m.p.h. Much of the luster went off his victory in the uproar that followed. U.S. Driver Dan Gurney insisted: "Cars are meant to negotiate a track, not the other way around." But Claude Bourillot, president of the Federation Francais des Sports Automobiles, argued that most European tracks are 50 years behind the times. "We are," he said, "like aviators trying to land Boeing jets on the airfields...
...statue could be anybody, Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, or even House Speaker Elmer Cravalho." Asked one Protestant minister who favored the Marisol: "Would we take statues of the mutilated body of Christ out of churches and destroy them just because they look so horrible?" The Senate responded to the uproar by authorizing $73,350 to make not one, but two 7-ft. casts of Marisol's Damien. Hawaii, said the Senate resolution, will be judged by the "maturity of its civilization." The Marisol version "will impress the viewer not only with the temperament, character and greatness...
Died. Delbert E. Metzger, 92, U.S. District Court Judge for Hawaii from 1939 to 1952, who caused an uproar in 1944 by ruling that martial law was no longer necessary in the islands and fining Lieut. General Robert C. Richardson Jr. $5,000 for refusing to comply, in 1951 caused another flap by acquitting 39 Hawaiians of contempt of Congress charges after they took refuge in the Fifth Amendment during a House investigation; in Honolulu...